Pattern designs printed with computer controlled pattern dyeing device

Abstract

A plurality of jet gun bars are spaced apart along the path of travel of a textile material and responsive to pattern data to form patterns on the material. Each gun bar stores and supplies different color dyestuff to color the material. A computer, on each periodic request, supplies pattern data to a predetermined number of gun bars, thereby providing dyestuff to different pattern lines for each request. During a change from printing one pattern to printing another different pattern, for each such request the computer provides data for the other pattern to a first predetermined number of gun bars and data for the one pattern to a second predetermined number of gun bars subsequent to the first number, thereby simultaneously completing the printing of the one pattern and starting the printing of the other pattern.

I claim: 
     
       1. An elongated textile material comprising: (a) a number of repeats of a first pattern extending in a lengthwise direction of said textile material, each repeat of said first pattern after the first such repeat of said first pattern being immediately adjacent a preceding repeat of said first pattern, each repeat of said first pattern being defined by a border separating it from adjacent repeats; and   (b) a number of repeats of a second pattern extending in said lengthwise direction of said textile material from the final repeat of said first pattern, each repeat of said second pattern being defined by a border separating it from adjacent repeats, said second pattern being different from said first pattern, each repeat of said second pattern after the first such repeat of said second pattern being immediately adjacent a preceding repeat of said second pattern, the leading edge of the first repeat of said second pattern being spaced by a distance from the trailing edge of the final repeat of said first pattern in the lengthwise direction of said textile material, wherein said repeats of said first pattern and said repeats of said second pattern are arranged in an overall non-repeating sequence extending in said lengthwise direction.   
     
     
       2. A textile material according to claim 1 wherein said distance is substantially zero so that said first repeat of said second pattern is immediately adjacent said final repeat of said first pattern. 
     
     
       3. A textile material according to claim 1 wherein said distance is substantially less than the lengthwise extent of said first pattern but sufficient to permit separation of said first repeat of said second pattern from said final repeat of said first pattern without damaging either. 
     
     
       4. A textile material according to claim 1, wherein said textile material is an elongated strip of pile carpet. 
     
     
       5. The textile material of claim 1 wherein said patterns are visibly dyed thereon.